Other Awards

Nominated for Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas (Spring 2023)

Sabbatical (Fall 2017)

Nominated for the Byron A. Alexander/John C. Wright Graduate Mentor Award, University of Kansas (2017)

Elizabeth Kolmer Award, Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA) (2014). The award honors teaching and mentoring in the field of American studies and service to MAASA.

H. Earle Johnson Subvention Award, Society for American Music (2014) $2,500 to assist with book publication expenses for Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen (NC: Duke University Press, 2014)

Nominated for Kemper Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas (2011)

Nominated for the Byrd Graduate Educator Award, University of Kansas (2011)

Nominated for the Mary C. Turpie Prize, American Studies Association (2011)

Sabbatical (Fall 2009)

2002-2003 Teaching Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas.

2002 Philip Brett Prize, American Musicological Society. As contributor to winning book, Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity.

2001 Emily Toth Book Award, American Culture/Popular Culture Association. Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940’s.

1998 Article Award, Oral History Association. “Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band”

1998 Dissertation Fellowship, History of Consciousness, U.C. Santa Cruz

1995 Ki Mantle Hood Prize, Northern and Southern California Society for Ethnomusicology “West Coast Women: A Jazz Genealogy”

External Grants

Heble, Ajay. (Principal) “International Institute for Critical Improvisation Studies: Improvising Futures.” Partnership Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2021. (Funded)

National Endowment for the Arts – Art Works Grant (Presenting and Multidisciplinary Works). Tucker, Sherrie (Principal), Abbey Dvorak (Co-Principal), Kip Haaheim, (Co-Principal), Nicole Hodges Persley (Co-Principal), and Michelle Heffner Hayes (Co-Principal). “Improvising Inclusive Communities with the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument.” $35,000. 2017. (Funded)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – Partnership Grant. Ajay Heble (Principal), Sherrie Tucker, Jesse Stewart, George Lewis, Ichiro Fujinaga, R. Gold, Lawrence Joseph, Daniel Lametti, Eric Lewis, Lisa Lorenzino, Stephen McAdams, Tina Piper, Andrew Staniland, Ellen Waterman, Pauline Oliveros, Kevin McNeilly, Jerrard Smith, Daniel Weinstock, Deborah Wong, George Lipsitz, Frederique Arroyas, Alan Filewod, Daniel Fischlin, Marta McCarthy, Georgina Born, Rebecca Caines, and Charity Marsh. “International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation: a partnered research Institute.” $2,499,923. 2013–2020. (Funded).

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen. PI. 2010. (Funded)

Alternate, American Council of Learned Societies, 2009

Co-Applicant, Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program Grant, 2006-2013 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada:Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice.
PI: Ajay Heble, Professor, University of Guelph, Ontario.

2006: Haynes Foundation Grant, Historical Society of Southern California

2004: Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, American Historical Association

National Park Service, Research Study Contract, 2001-2003 New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
“A Feminist Perspective on New Orleans Jazz Women”

Internal Grants

General Research Fund Grant, KU. AUMI Together: The Adaptive Use Musical Instrument Community Advisory Board. $4,880. 2022-2023. (Funded)

Time-Sensitive and Urgency Fund (TSU) Research Excellence Initiative, KU. $1,000. 2022-2023. (Funded)

Engaged Scholarship Award (ESA), Research Excellence Initiative, KU. $1,000. 2022-2023.

Scholars-on-Site Award, Hall Center for the Humanities. Co-Applicant with Jim Barnes (Lawrence Public Library Sound & Vision Studio), Abbey Dvorak, Kip Haaheim, Michelle Heffner Hayes, Nicole Hodges Persley, Ray Mizumura-Pence, Ranita Wilks. Improvising across Abilities: The Adaptive Book Project. $3,000. 2019-2020. (Funded)

General Research Fund Grant, KU. Improvising Democracy: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument. PI. $6,408. 2018-2019. (Funded)

General Research Fund Grant, KU. Improvising Democracy: All-Ability Performance as Community Research and Practice. PI. $3,584. 2017-2018. (Funded)

Commons Interdisciplinary Starter Grant, KU. Co-Applicant with Abbey Dvorak, Kip Haaheim, Michelle Heffner Hayes, and Nicole Hodges Persley. Improvising Inclusive Communities: From the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument to the Center for Improvisation Studies. $9,886. 2016-2017. (Funded)

Tucker, Sherrie, and Caleb Lázaro-Moreno. Graduate Research Consultant Award. KU Center for Undergraduate Research (Spring 2016). (Funded)

General Research Fund Grant, KU. Improvising Democracy: All-Ability Performance as Community Research and Practice. PI. $4,100. 2015-2016. (Funded)

Keeler Intra-University Professorship. (Spring 2015).

Big XII Fellowship, Office of the Provost, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 2012-2013.

Hall Center for the Humanities Collaborative Research Seed Grant 2012-2013 Improvisation, Bodies, and Communities of Difference. Co-Applicant with Pauline Oliveros, Michelle Heffner Hayes, Nicole Hodges Persley, and Kip Haaheim.

Hall Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship, Fall 2006

University of Kansas, General Research Fund, 2005-2006 “Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen.”

University of Kansas, General Research Fund, 2004-2005 “Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen.”

Humanities Faculty Travel Grant, 2003-2004 Hall Center for the Humanities

University of Kansas, General Research Fund, 2003-2004 “Democracy on the Dance Floor: Race, Gender, and Nation at the Hollywood Canteen.”

University of Kansas, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2003-2004 Principal investigator: KU Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Group

University of Kansas Center for Research, 2003-2004 Principal investigator: KU Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Group

University of Kansas, General Research Fund, 2002-2003 “Democracy on the Dance Floor: Race, Gender, and Nation at the Hollywood Canteen.”